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LB log - 2016 Week 18

Yet again, a post will coincide with the end of the month, which means that I have to take special care to ensure it actually gets properly posted today. Perhaps if I make a small adjustment from the usual time settings, I could avoid trouble.

If a Diablo 3 patch is relased, and nobody plays it, is the game dead? As of this moment of writing, it is afternoon on a Saturday and out of my list of friends, nobody is in the game. I can't say that I am the least bit surprised. 2012 was four years ago, anyway.

With Star Ocean 5 finished and that patch being what it is, I had a plan set for this weekend to do a long overdue update of my tax code website. It's been two years. I got started on the process last week and it didn't take long for me to get back into the swing of how to go about it. Given the nature of the work and how much time I had already spent on it, I can't say I was expecting a long time to reacclimate. However, I did notice that I was dragging my heels into doing it. Having been so long without doing so and having little rationale or motivation to do so beyond conducting the act itself didn't give me a strong sense of urgency to get back to work. A touch of motivation from my wife did ultimately help. Now, I have to see if I can keep interaction with Diablo 3 friends to a minimum and resume work in earnest once the novelty of the patch wears off, and that should happen very quickly.

Home sessions have been odd this week. There were some really poor plays at times, while other stretches I at least held close to records if not surpassing them. I think the spring air and allergic response to it is at root. Regardless, and despite some very sloppy plays on the new records (at least on today's songs), the increases did come at times regardless. The new content for Copula should be there for me to discover this coming Sunday. I await to see how it will open itself up to me.

Lunar Beat. Extra Mode. Double play. "@" denotes Random chart modifier. All songs are of highest difficulty type unless specified.
First line, by column; song title, EX score percentage and letter grade rank, EX score value and pass/fail, judgment readout (just great, great, good, bad poor), highest combo reached, note count of chart under Extra Mode, original note count of chart, percentage increase of Extra Mode notes over original note count, timestamp.
Second line, by column; pass count / play count, EX score percentage difference from record, EX score value difference from record, judgment readout difference from record (if current play is new record), highest combo reached difference from record (if current play is new record), timestamp of old record (if current play is new record).